The Black Atlantic. Slavery, Music, Faith and Memory on Both Sides of the Ocean
HISTORY 360
Miguel Muñoz
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Before the ships came, West Africa had its kingdoms, its scholars, its songs. This is the story of what the slave trade tried to erase and what survived it. From the horror of the Middle Passage to the plantation worlds of the Americas, from the gods who crossed the ocean and were reborn as Vodou, Candomblé and Santería, to the slave revolts and the thunderclap of the Haitian Revolution, this is a human history told with rigor and heart. It follows the long road to abolition and the sound that conquered the planet: spirituals, blues, jazz, gospel, soul, reggae and hip-hop, born of suffering and turned into beauty. It carries Pan-Africanism into our own time, into the living debates over memory and reparations. Unflinching about atrocity yet never reducing its subjects to victims, this book honors the dignity, intelligence and creativity of the enslaved and their descendants, who built a culture that changed the world.
Before the ships came, West Africa had its kingdoms, its scholars, its songs. This is the story of what the slave trade tried to erase and what survived it. From the horror of the Middle Passage to the plantation worlds of the Americas, from the gods who crossed the ocean and were reborn as Vodou...
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